The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

A podcast by American Public Media

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1430 Episodes

  1. 1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

    Published: 2/7/2025

  2. 1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs

    Published: 2/6/2025

  3. 1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison

    Published: 2/5/2025

  4. 1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann

    Published: 2/4/2025

  5. 1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad

    Published: 2/3/2025

  6. 1285: It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell

    Published: 1/31/2025

  7. 1284: When You Rise from the Dead I Drive You to the After Party by Melissa Studdard

    Published: 1/30/2025

  8. 1283: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Published: 1/29/2025

  9. 1282: Third Week of Ramadan by Sahar Romani

    Published: 1/28/2025

  10. 1281: I Want to Die by Tariq Luthun

    Published: 1/27/2025

  11. 1280: If by Imtiaz Dharker

    Published: 1/24/2025

  12. 1279: Ode to My Mama and “The Purple Dress,” circa 1992-1993 by Brittany Rogers

    Published: 1/23/2025

  13. 1278: things people like to share: by Nuar Alsadir

    Published: 1/22/2025

  14. 1277: Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank by Ashanti Anderson

    Published: 1/21/2025

  15. 1276: To Be Longing by Elizabeth Willis

    Published: 1/20/2025

  16. 1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres

    Published: 1/17/2025

  17. 1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato

    Published: 1/16/2025

  18. 1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen

    Published: 1/15/2025

  19. 1272: The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

    Published: 1/14/2025

  20. 1271: Refuge by Nehassaiu deGannes

    Published: 1/13/2025

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Poet Major Jackson is your guide on the pathways to feel and understand our common journey – through poetry. In sharing poems, we take a moment to pause and acknowledge the world’s magnitude, and how poets illuminate that mystery. Join The Slowdown for a poem and a moment of reflection in one short episode, every weekday. Produced by APM Studios in partnership with The Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Make us a part of your routine as you drink coffee in the morning, as you take a walk in nature, or as you wind down to go to sleep in the evening. With host Major Jackson, we collectively take a moment to calm, to inspire, to learn, and to engage with the best emerging poets and established writers of our time and generations past, from Emily Dickinson to Danez Smith, from Amanda Gorman to Mary Oliver. Listen to our back catalog for episodes by our previous hosts, Tracy K. Smith and Ada Limón, as well as guest hosts Jenny Xie, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tina Chang, Nate Marshall, Shira Erlichiman, and Jason Schneiderman. Our hosts and production team select poems that move them, and we hope they move you, too.